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This is on a renting economy. Sharing economy I feel usually refers to a person-to-person marketplace where asset ownership is decentralized (i.e. airbnb you r

This is on a renting economy. Sharing economy I feel usually refers to a person-to-person marketplace where asset ownership is decentralized (i.e. airbnb you rent out your room or uber you rent you a ride in your car). That said, I agree with most comments that bike renting sounds quite useful, but things like umbrella renting sound a bit more dicey.

zitterbewegung 9y ago
I think it would be also be better described as a company that provides a service. Wait a minute we call those things companies ! But when most people say sharing economies you are giving the definition that the news tells you. Typically sharing economies are ways where people can provide possible illegal services and may or may not qualify as employees but are kept as contractors . Looks like another submarine post about this Chinese startup. To be honest I haven't heard that many bad things about it. Bike sharing companies seem to do OK around the world too.
arthurcolle 9y ago
Sine you mention it, I feel obliged to point out that the only project that seems to be working on a real alternative to the sharing economy giants right now is Swarm City, a distributed application built on Ethereum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1794644.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1794644.0 for information post). Despite the current ICO craze, most of the funded projects don't seem to be working on problems that affect everyday people with the exception of a few select projects. Disclaimer: I'm a backer of the Swarm City project, but outside of that I truly believe that dApps that are able to solve the problem of sharing economy businesses built on privately controlled infra maintained by corporations completely financed with massive amounts of VC funding do not have correct incentive alignment with the providers of services or the users of the services, which makes exploration of alternatives a moral and social obligation.
minusf 9y ago
umbrellas in Japan are for free at many shopping malls and restaurants, just lying around in holders until someone needs one. pick it up at one place, put it down in another when the rain stopped. such a nice system.

zitterbewegung 9y ago

I think it would be also be better described as a company that provides a service. Wait a minute we call those things companies ! But when most people say sharing economies you are giving the definition that the news tells you. Typically sharing economies are ways where people can provide possible illegal services and may or may not qualify as employees but are kept as contractors . Looks like another submarine post about this Chinese startup. To be honest I haven't heard that many bad things about it. Bike sharing companies seem to do OK around the world too.

arthurcolle 9y ago

Sine you mention it, I feel obliged to point out that the only project that seems to be working on a real alternative to the sharing economy giants right now is Swarm City, a distributed application built on Ethereum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1794644.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1794644.0 for information post). Despite the current ICO craze, most of the funded projects don't seem to be working on problems that affect everyday people with the exception of a few select projects. Disclaimer: I'm a backer of the Swarm City project, but outside of that I truly believe that dApps that are able to solve the problem of sharing economy businesses built on privately controlled infra maintained by corporations completely financed with massive amounts of VC funding do not have correct incentive alignment with the providers of services or the users of the services, which makes exploration of alternatives a moral and social obligation.

minusf 9y ago

umbrellas in Japan are for free at many shopping malls and restaurants, just lying around in holders until someone needs one. pick it up at one place, put it down in another when the rain stopped. such a nice system.